Coat front structure



' a' 1945. Y. A. FRIDLUND ET AL 8, 60

COAT FRONT STRUCTURE Filed vApril '7, 1943 Ynyve fl/lah Frzcl/anl ana Attorneys Patented Jan. 30, 1945 Y 1 UNITED PAT CQAT RQN STRUCT u i t Yngve-All n Fridl und and s n am.

- Hedma'n, Trollhattan,

Sweden, assignors' to Konfektionsakti ebolaget"Viking, T rohhattan,

Application April 7, 1943, Serial .No. 482,094:

In Sweden March}, 1942 Claims. (01. 2-93) can without disadvantage be carried outwith vthe often desired fullness of the breast portion and width of the shoulder portion. Further, the object of the invention is to obtain a front piece of the above mentioned kind which is suitable for a wholesale manufacture working in steps. The front piece according to the invention is substantially characterized by the fact that it is provided with a cut at, or close to the foldingline of the lapel along the substantial part of said line, and that the cloth between the out and edge 6 of the front piece in the cut condition of the front piece is situated at the same distance from the upper edge I of the upper. con-, Jtinuat'ion of the lapel 2 as the front piece is to be str'etchedin the longitudinal direction of the out at the ready making. The stretching is greater at the cut 4 and decreases successively v towards thev fixing edge of the sleeve, the part of the. edge 6- next to the collar being lifted at the same time as the upper outer corner of the front piece and the edge 5 are forced outwards,

as shown in Fig. 2 -After the stretching has i been completed the cut 4 is sewn together, whereafter the rest of the front piece is completed and sewn together'with the back piece along the edge 6, I. In the described construction of thefront piece all of these operations can form separate steps in the manufacture and are performedv by different workmen. After the portions around the sleeve apertures have been com- 'pleted the sleeve can be inserted and the collar the sleeve is stretched in the longitudinal direc tion of the cut and fixed in said condition.

A front piece according to the invention is illustrated by way'of example on the accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 shows a cut out front iece according to the invention.

Fig. 2 shows the same front piece after the stretching in the longitudinaldirection of the cut and the fixing have taken place.

Fig. 3 shows a front side of a jacket provided with a front piece according to the invention.

Fig. 4 shows a front side of a jacket provided with a common factory made front piece.

The front piece I illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 is made of striped cloth, the stripes running parallel with the thread in the cloth in the longitudinal direction of the front piece. The part in-' tended for the lapel is designated by 2, and close to the folding line ofthe lapel there is a cut 4, said line being in Fig. 2 indicated by the dashed line 3. Said cut extends along the folding line 3 preferably some distance from the folding line on the side between said folding line'and the sleeve from the upper edge of v the front piece to a place close to the lower end of the lapel. As will be seen from Fig. 1 the front piece is cut practically along the thread parallel to the stripes along the upper part 5 of the fixing edge of the sleeve, and also the upper edge 6 of the front piece is out almost along the thread about perpendicularly to the shown striping. In the embodiment shown the upper 8 be fixedalong the line 9 indicated in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 3 one side of the finished article with inserted sleeve I0 is shown, and it is clear from this figure that the fixing of the sleeve along the edge 5 as well as the connection between the fro'nt piece I and the back piecealong the edge 6 extends substantially along the thread whereby the strength of the seams and the appearance of the article are improved Fig. 4 showsone half of the front side of a jacket of the usual construction. .The front piece II is here provided with a lape1'l2 and sewed together with a sleeve 13 along the edge I and with a back piece along the edge I5. The edges l4 and I5 extend obliquely against the stripe direction of the vcloth, and therefore particularly the upper'outercorner of the front piece II and the upper partof the seam along the sleeve become rather weak and less neat.

The front piece described above and shown on the'drawing is, of course, only to be considered as an example, and the details of the invention may be modified in different ways within the scope of the claims. For example, it is not always necessary thatthe lapel 2 extends up to the edge 1 but the said edge may lie lower than the edge 6, and the fixing of the stretched portions of the front piece I maytake place by means of underlying material. The sleeve need not always be cut to follow the pattern of the cloth or along the stripes in the upper portions as shown in the drawing. Of course, the invention may be applied to other articles than'those mentioned in the preamble of the specification and to articles in which the lapels are more or less diminutive. The cut may be made in the folding line of the lapel or in the immediate vicinity thereof on the lapel.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:.' -U

1. A front piece for jackets, costume jackets, overcoats, coats or the like provided with lapels, said front piece being provided with a cut at Cal or close to the folding line of the lapel along the substantial part of said line, the cloth between the cut and the sleeve being stretchedin the longitudinal direction of the cut, and the lapel being secured to said stretched front piece throughout the length of the cut.

2. A front piece as claimed in claim 1, the cut beginning in the upper edge of the front piece.

3. A front piece as claimed in claim 1, the front piece between the folding-line of the lapel and the sleeve being cut as much shorter than the lapel as the length thefront piece is to be stretched.

4. A front piece as claimed in claim 1, the

stretching of the cloth in the longitudinal direction of the cut diminishing successively from the out towards the sleeve.

5. A front piece as claimed in claim 1, the cloth bein cut parallel with the thread along the upper portion of the arm hole, said arm hole being swung outwards through the stretching of the front'piece in the longitudinal direction of thecut.

YNGVE ALLAN FRIDLUND. SVERRE RAGNVALD HEDMAN. 

